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You remember that LendingTree advertising tagline, "When banks compete, you win"? Well, in this election cycle, it looks like the American people have lost out -- lost some sanity, lost a moderate option, and there's also no candidate to unify the country and actually move us, ahem, forward.

This article was going to be a very nuanced piece explaining why it is almost certain that President Obama will win a second term at this point.

But then I'd incur the wrath of the Romney Nation. And/or I'd incur the simultaneous wrath of the proud Obama Nation, who seem to hate everything I write (even the rare compliment for this administration) and see into my tweets a level of sinister partisanship hackery that simply is not there.

More than anything else, this election has sucked because people's heads have begun to explode. What happened to reasonable disagreement? When, for example, a journalist mentions that Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other administration in US history, an appropriate response is not OH YEAH YOU SECRET REPUBLICAN SCUMBAG, I GUESS THAT MEANS WE SHOULD ALL VOTE FOR MITTENS HUH? I'M ON TO YOU MOTHERF***ER.

An appropriate response, however, could be: you're right, that's not good. We need to fix this. We need to put pressure on the Obama administration -- with online petitions, focused articles, and discussion -- to remind our leaders that the First Amendment is one of this nation's founding principles and rights. It's not a liability to be cordoned off and eliminated.

That's not appropriate. This eloquent analysis, from Andrew Bowen, goes down a bit smoother: "At the dusk of Obama’s first term, the United States needs to find a better balance in its approach to counterterrorism in order to strengthen local support for its policies and avoid the risk of alienating public opinion in these states. Drone attacks have weakened the organizations but are not a long-term solution to the challenges facing America in the region, and have the growing risk of domestic blowback."

The election can't come soon enough. Obama or Romney, I'm looking forward to talking to Americans once again -- not Republicans, Democrats, Obama Supporters, Romney Supporters, and those mythical Undecideds.